A CA App Synthetic Monitor Public Status Page is your own public website health page. It is simple to set up and FREE for all CA App Synthetic Monitor customers!

What is a Public Status Page?

A CA App Synthetic Monitor Public Status Page enables your organization to display information about the availability and performance of your critical services. You can post announcements, annotate current issues, and optionally set up a special host name (CNAME) so people can access the status page using your domain name, e.g. status.yourdomain.com. It is an easy control channel through which you can transparently inform visitors about the status of your sites and web services.

All CA App Synthetic Monitor Public Status Pages are hosted on Amazon's Cloud infrastructure so they are available even if your site or service is not.

Give me some real world examples?

Many major organizations use a Public Status Page to inform their customers as soon as a critical service becomes unavailable. Some well-known examples are:

The Twitter API status on dev.twitter.com/status which is based on the CA App Synthetic Monitor Public Status Pages, see some sample screenshots below.

How does it work?

The Public Status Pages are based on the CA App Synthetic Monitor website monitoring service. Any sites and services that are monitored by CA App Synthetic Monitor, can be displayed on a Public Status Page. Normal performance is represented with a green tick icon. When a monitor returns an confirmed error, the Public Status Page will display a red exclamation mark icon. As soon as the monitor detects a return to normal performance, the Public Status Page will update and revert to the green tick icon. Poor performance (e.g. a slowly loading site) is represented with an orange icon. The definition of "slow" is defined by your own organization, for each individual monitor.

Whenever your organization experiences a performance or availability issue, you can annotate it in your CA App Synthetic Monitor account and the information (e.g. 'our technicians are working on a solution. We expect the service to be back to normal by 16:00') will be pushed to your Public Status Page. Announcements can also be added through an RSS feed.

What are the features of a Public Status Page?

Simple set-up

Customizable look (logo/HTML/CSS)

Hosting on Amazon Web Services platform - reachable even when your site is down

Why not give it a try?

Create a new monitor folder for each Public Status Page you would like to set up.

Within the folder, create a monitor for each of your main services. (Note: carefully define the settings of the monitors and especially the timers for the performance thresholds. For an internal contact group, you may want to set up a similar set of monitors with more strict thresholds so your organization receives notification of any performance issues, well before your Public Status Page displays them).